Full Fight | Lyoto Machida vs. Rafael Carvalho | Bellator 213

six foot one to six foot three carvalho is a tall fighter and fights tall and has a definite reach advantage needs to keep leota to the outside with the official introductions here is michael c now williams for tonight's co-main event three five minute rounds in the middleweight division live on the zone we introduce the blue corner first at six foot three weighing in 186 and one half pounds the former bellador middleweight world champion tonight brings 15 professional victories only two defeats from kurdichiba varanam brazil presenting halfway the blessed cavalio [Applause] and across the cage his adversary fighting out of the red corner at six foot one weighing in 185.9 pounds the former light heavyweight world champion tonight makes his bellator debut bringing an impressive 24 professional victories along with eight defeats hailing from melee brazil [Music] [Applause] michael bell raphael all right gentlemen you got your instructions backstage you find yourself at all times obey my commands all the time do you want to touch gloves touch them now let's select them both referee mike bell with final instructions carvajal looking to get back on the winning track as he welcomes leota machida to bellator mma magetta's face to of competition fight and has reigned supreme how will he fare in his bellator mma debut the two brazilians touch gloves as a show of sportsmanship machida in the red gloves it is carvajal in the blue gloves the muay thai of the kurichiba fighter and of course the shotokan karate of well with all due respect to ralph macho the karate kid mr leotto machida and it'll be interesting what do you look for early in this fight john what i look for in this is lyoto is a master at controlling the distance in a fight against his opponent and i look for rafael rafael what i want to see out of him is i want to see him take chances i want to see him crush that distance in time don't be sloppy but take chances in coming inside and landing your hands or throwing good effective kicks carvalho switching stances and he told us that working with his coach andre dida that he wanted to introduce something new in this fight he went back watched some of his older fights before he came to bellator he says he has to bring that violent spirit back as they close the gap and carvajal backs machida to the fence who do you give the edge to in the clinch and you know honestly in the clinch i believe the clinch and the ground game the advantage goes to the ottoman cheetah i have watched raphael when he's in the clinch he was in the clinch a lot against a guy like joe schilling and he doesn't seem to do as much work as he should and he tends to lose position so right now if he's in this position start utilizing knee strikes you open up on him that's gonna [Music] [Applause] won the vacant bellator middleweight title be a second round liver kick against brandon halsey and october 2015 made three consecutive title defenses tying with alexander schlamenko for most in history but again lost the title to kagard musashi in his last fight lance's right hand and again drives machida to the fence which is unusual in my i i did not see that you know in watching both these guys knowing both of them i didn't think kavajo would want to actually get into a grappling exchange even in the stand-up with lyoto i thought he would try to utilize power to break down what lyoto does carvalho telling us that machida throws those straight strikes works very well in the counter attack of course has the front kicks which are his lethal weapon so he has to carve has to stay alert at all times not leave room for mistakes and not be logged into that false sense of security that machida is so adept at doing and this is exactly what happened with raphael when he was with joe schilling turning of that position he needs to be very careful if he's going to be in that clinch don't let him get you to the you're back against the party machida already leaking like a political document here in the first round as he comes forward but carvalho's staying out of range both of them well the cheetah now switching to a southpaw stance the feeling of process continues and that nose happened based off of that counter right hand that rafael threw when lyoto came at him inside low kick by machida body kick by carbayo arbayo moving with machida there's a lead left hand from the southpaw stats by machida blocks that kick by carbio 32 years of age six and one in the bellator cage fifteen and two overall with twelve victories via form a knockout and carvajal has machita on the ground but it's machida who's unloading on carvajal with strikes from his back and back to his feet goes vegeta i'm impressed that i think believes that he can outgrab for leona machida and he's going after it because in all of his fights before he's always tried to avoid that grappling exchange he is a huge 185 pound fighter you can see how big he is because is a guy that was the light heavyweight title holder and you can see that caballo is bigger than leona by quite a bit in this fight at 185 final minute of the first round carvalho fainting on that back foot flying at carpal with his right hand there's that kick by machida follows up with a left hand under 30 seconds left in the opening round one of the things you'll see is where machida goes to an orthodox stance he likes to bring that right leg up through the middle rabbi has got to be careful of that effective counter-attack from leo magetta down the stretch that's that straight right hand right there that's what hurt the nose of leota machida you see when cavallo takes the fight to the ground leota tries to open up none of those shots are damaging but it is at least creating a situation where kamaya was not able to control the position and the owner was able to get himself right back to his feet walker the nfl legend and believe it or not a man who actually competed in mixed martial arts yeah 2-0 call both of those fights a two-time nfl pro bowl selection and i told you neiman gracie popping a bottle of [Applause] as gracie advances to the semi-finals of the bellator welterweight grand prix and we now begin round two of this middleweight matchup between machida and carvalho your unofficial scorecard after five minutes unofficially i have kybayo winning that round he controlled the location of the fight landed the better strikes and that's the reason he gets around lead right uppercut [Applause] going the kicking route to kick off round two is coming into the second round there is no doubt that his nose is broken from that straight right hand that rafael caballo hit him with carvalho trying to close the range and there carbano catches machida momentarily and magetta retreating [Applause] at six three bigger than the 6-1 leota machida now putting all his weight on the 40-year-old here in round two he's not only taller he is physically bigger than the ottoman cheetah and i am impressed that man he is not respecting the other striking ability off leota hit him with a nice kick to the body there and just coming straight forward walking through lyoto's offense to push him up into the cage machida started under legendary pro wrestler antonio anoki and at one time faced bj penn the hawaiian icon in a fight where machida weighed 225 pounds penn weighed 191 pounds vegeta won via unanimous decision back in the day that was a long time ago when bj was crazy enough to say size does not matter hawaiian mma on the map and of course we saw max holloway masterful performance last week and retaining his ufc featherweight title elima lay mcfarland undefeated hawaiian flyweight champion coming up in the main event and of course bj penn continues his for an mma later this month that machina catches carbido he felt that kick morrow that he had his hand up there but that went right through that glove and it rattled his cage the one thing about leota machina with his kicks while his kicks don't seem to land with as much power as some other guys at times it's because he doesn't he doesn't show it he doesn't step into the kick he's got a quicker release with no tells so those are difficult to anticipate and he gains his power through the accuracy of his placement carvalho striking marking up the face of machida now attacking magedo's lead leg from southpaw position carbayo coming forward machida staying out of range two minutes remaining in the second round [Music] there's that front kick by machida superman punched by leota magetta and that left hand staggered the cheetah he felt it was out balanced but he tagged him he touched it but off that's why he hit the ground less than 90 seconds left in the second round and carvajal outstriking machida but again majido this we've seen this before john he wants to lull you in very effective counter attack very effective you know look at leona's been accurate with his strikes but you can see that caballo is now in a position where he's starting to say i can walk through it i think that i can bully you in this fight that's what he's trying to do final minute of the second round continues to lock down machida but not a lot of offense there's a kick and that left a mark and you can see the markings on the left thigh of machida vegeta launches a kick watch the fingers watch your fingers stop time diode right there watch your fingers okay they're exciting when he's coming out [Music] there's him sticking that hand out that little finger going up into the eye again normal that it's a defensive action trying to keep the guy off both of you guys watching what happens in mma by the way we should mention that carvajal missed weight came in at 186 and a half pounds 20 of his purse going to machida and you know you wonder in many ways this could be a title elimination about should carvel be rewarded should he defeat machida should he get another crack at that title right away in my opinion you come in heavy you don't get a shot at anything your job yeah i tell people all the time as a fighter you have certain responsibilities machida exploding on carbido but didn't land anything as we go to the third and final round had weight issues coming into this fight from machida the last few years well he's had his trials and tribulations and you're a one and four skid from 2014 to 2017 was forced to sit out 18 months for unknowingly taking a banned substance and yet found his groove comes into his bellator debut with a two fight winning streak and here it is the third and final round how do you have it on your unofficial scorecard unofficially add this one round a piece so right now it's 1919 whoever wins this round wins the fight and the two brazilian compatriots touch gloves before renewing hostility's body kick lands for carbayo and a body kick for machida from the southpaw stance but it's carbile with the counter attack and carvalho in pursuit of vegeta a lot of people look at that like he's running away from him he is avoiding the attack i don't like the way he avoids attack but he avoided it completely so you gotta say it was effective even though it's you're going to give credit to kabal for having the attack in the matador run kick from machida follows up with the left when the horns are closed running is a pretty good option [Music] really interesting to see caballo in that southpaw stance now and he's been staying in it so obviously he's feeling comfortable with that matchup against leota oh and there's a takedown by machida on carvalho with the minute gone here in the third and final round me that's an intelligent fighter right now because in my opinion lyoto has a distinct advantage on the ground a nice camaro attempt right now by rafael it's not gonna work the way he has it but at least he's trying submitted an opponent has 12 knockout victories in his 15 career wins she has two submission wins and he's been submitted twice but machida working from the half guard now also creating a lot of shoulder pressure down here that's heavy [Music] sliding in the mouth achieved by machida and this is the position that carvajal was in with gay garden less than three minutes remaining but plenty of time for machida to work from top position but it's carvalho controlling his posture shoulder strike from machida there's a lot of weight right now riding down on cavallo's diaphragm by the weight of leota machina trust me with that grapevine he's feeling like he's about 350 pounds [Applause] and you have two and a half minutes left in the fight referee asking for action and magetta from the full mount but unable to get anything going here as it's carvalho controlling his posture what you're going to see is that left arm coming in to frame out which is going to take and put pressure down on cabrillo [Applause] coming up on the final two minutes of the fight who wants it more they're in a static position in the center of the cage well it's static as far as there's not a lot of action going but machida has all of the advantage right now he's posturing he can do the damage offensively oh good job by caveira to get himself up and out could very well come down to this final minute and a half machida with the body kick lead right hand closes the gap into the clinch vegeta defending the anticipated knee strike from carvalho and instead delivers a knee of his own cabal showing you know what [Music] the holidays upon us but uh that does not feel good up against the fence take a look the knee comes straight up right to that trying to hit the thigh but it's hitting the inside and right against the groin that doesn't feel good see and that's one of the things a lot of people don't realize the referee when that cup gets hit you can hear it and that's why the referee quickly says time and separates the fighters machida will be given up to five minutes to recover appears to be shaking it up you okay okay you need to watch it dude you do it again i'm very impressed with that you understand what you saw at hawaii in getting himself up he got in that same position we were talking about with massachusetts and then made the mistake of turning his back and he didn't make that mistake with vegeta that's the maturity of a fighter kick by machida from the southpaw stands and the knee and immediately machida closes the gap but from the clinch takes kavado down under a minute left in the fight bad mistake by cavallo to let that happen he brought his feet together that's how leona just tripped that foot up brought him down cabal has to feel a little bit of there's urgency here you cannot stay underneath him either start to swing into a submission or start to move yourself so you can get yourself up so you can do something to try to win this round 30 seconds remaining machida with the wide base looking to posture carvalho trying to control machida on the bottom and now the guillotine potentially there the front choke by machida he gets his hands right he can take this as a guillotine there is it can be pressure he understands how final 10 seconds of the fight not going to be there and in his bellator mma debut machida that's tight now more goes the distance with rafael carvalho [Applause] ladies and gentlemen having gone the distance will go to your three judges at cage side your first judge mike own zukum scores the fight 29-28 he scores the fight for machida your second judge eric colon scores the fight 29-28 he sees the fight for cavalio your third and final judge at cage side ron mccarthy scores the fight 29 to 28 for the winner by split decision loyoto a split decision and bellator mma welcomes leota machida hard-fought victory over the former bellator middleweight champion rafael carvalho but the dragon is victorious in the bellator mma cage let's go to john mccarthy ladies and gentlemen i am here with your winner leota the dragon machida leona first thing welcome to bellator brother and second your nose got broken at the beginning of that fight with a straight right hand how did that affect you in this fight first of all aloha so rafael he's a tough opponent so he gave me a hard punch but i could take that i don't know if he broke my nose but no problem i went to until the end the fight but what is important is never quit guys don't let other people make you quit your dreams never give up thank you guys [Applause] this is your first fight in the bellator cage you got to win over a previous champion in rafael cavallo who is it that you want next everybody but i went to the belch i want that belt guys i want to be a bellator champion let's see so so it makes no difference whoever wins between gagar mousasi and rafael lovato jr that's the man you want i'll be ready for one of those ladies and gentlemen your winner leona the dragon [Applause] machida you

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Length: 23min 17sec (1397 seconds)

Published: Fri Apr 09 2021